Gash vs Slice - What's the difference?
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A deep cut.
* 2006 , New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/11bush.html?hp&ex=1158033600&en=e468f88da52557ed&ei=5094&partner=homepage]:
(slang, vulgar) A vulva, pussy
* 1959 , , (Naked Lunch) , 50th anniversary edition (2009),
(slang, offensive) A woman
(slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit
(slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft
(slang) Unused film or sound during film editing
(slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.
To make a deep, long cut, to slash.
That which is thin and broad.
A thin, broad piece cut off.
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A piece of pizza.
* 2010 , Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
(British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
A broad, thin piece of plaster.
A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
A salver, platter, or tray.
A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
(Australia, NZ) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
(medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
To cut into slices.
To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
(golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
(soccer)
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To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
Gash is a related term of slice.
As nouns the difference between gash and slice
is that gash is a deep cut while slice is that which is thin and broad.As verbs the difference between gash and slice
is that gash is to make a deep, long cut, to slash while slice is to cut into slices.gash
English
Noun
(gashes)- Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.
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- “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”
Verb
(es)Anagrams
* *slice
English
Noun
(en noun)- a slice''' of bacon''; ''a '''slice''' of cheese''; ''a '''slice of bread
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- For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
- I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
Derived terms
* hypersliceVerb
(slic)- Slice the cheese thinly.
- The knife left sliced his arm.
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